RA-HS149 Working in Extreme Temperatures and Specialist Environments
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This example covers work in extreme temperatures and specialist environments - cold stores, hot plant rooms, confined spaces, noise and lone working.
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Risk Assessment - Working in Extreme Temperatures and Specialist Environments
This pre-completed risk assessment covers work carried out by refrigeration and air cooling engineers in environments that push beyond a normal workplace - cold stores and freezer plants, hot plant rooms and rooftops, confined spaces and remote locations. It considers installation, commissioning and service engineers, apprentices, supervisors and rescue personnel.
What Does This Risk Assessment Cover?
The assessment addresses the significant hazards of these environments, including:
- Cold environments - work in cold stores, chilled rooms and blast freezers, including cold stress and trapped-person risk
- Heat - hot plant rooms and rooftop work in warm weather, where ambient and equipment temperatures combine
- Confined spaces - plant rooms with restricted ventilation, equipment enclosures, pits and voids
- Noise - compressors, condensers, fans, pumps and venting valves in machinery spaces
- Lone and remote working - engineers delayed or prevented from raising the alarm after an incident
- Oxygen depletion - refrigerant accumulating in enclosed plant rooms, cold stores, basements and pits
How the Risks Are Rated
Every hazard is scored twice. The inherent rating shows the risk before controls are considered, and the residual rating shows the risk that remains once the listed controls are in place - giving a clear picture of how much each set of controls is actually doing. Ratings are selected from pre-populated drop-down boxes, with document styles that colour-match each rating automatically, and recognised safety pictograms mark hazards, mandatory controls and prohibitions throughout.
Who Is This Risk Assessment For?
This assessment is suitable for any business whose engineers work in these environments, including:
- Refrigeration and air conditioning contractors
- Cold store and food logistics operators
- Industrial plant maintenance teams
- Facilities and building services providers
Ready to Adapt to Your Sites
The controls reflect established good practice for thermal, atmospheric and access-related challenges. Review each row against the environments your engineers actually enter, adjust the ratings where your circumstances differ, and record your site-specific details in the completed-by and location fields.
Health and Safety Compliance
This document provides ready-to-use evidence of risk assessment and supports occupational health and safety management. The assessment is based on the F-HS20 General Risk Assessment template, is fully editable in Microsoft Word, and can be customised with your company details, site-specific information and review dates.